Supanova 2010 - Magazine - Brisbane/Melbourne

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• Movies • TV • Panels • Q&As • MasterClass • Anime • Cartoons • Sci-fi • Gaming • Fantasy • Comics • Manga • Wrestling • Free Stuff • Collectables • Fun

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Where and when Supanova 2010 - Brisbane 1pm-7pm, Friday, 9th April, 10am-6pm, Saturday, 10th April, and 10am-6pm, Sunday, 11th April, 2010.

(Opening Night 6-10pm, Friday 9th April) Exhibition and Walter Burnett Buildings, RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane (Gregory Terrace entrance) Supanova 2010 - Melbourne 10am-6pm, Saturday 17th April, and 10am-6pm, Sunday, 18th April, 2010.

(Opening Night 6-10pm, Friday 16th April) Boulevard Hocker and Royal Block, Melbourne Showgrounds (Epsom Road, Main Gate entrance)

Tickets The SUPA FAN PASS - Brisbane (see page 8 for more info) $49.50 (Ticketek) or $60 at the door.

Includes entry to...

Supanova 2010 - Brisbane & Opening Night

1pm-7pm, Friday, 9th April 10am-6pm, Saturday, 10th April 10am-6pm, Sunday, 11th April Opening Night 6-10pm, Friday, 9th April The SUPA FAN PASS - Melbourne (see page 8 for more info) $39.50 (Ticketek) or $50 at the door.

Includes entry to...

Supanova 2010 - Melbourne & Opening Night

10am-6pm, Saturday 17th April 10am-6pm, Sunday, 18th April Opening Night 6-10pm, Friday, 16th April Or...

Single Day Pass For Friday 9th April (Brisbane only), 1pm-7pm

Adult $18.80 (Ticketek) or $20 at the door For Saturday or Sunday, 10am-6pm, at either Brisbane or Melbourne.

Adult $23.80 (Ticketek) or $25 at the door Children 5-12 years FREE (must be accompanied by a paying adult).

Supa-Star VIP Pass (limited 20 per event) Maximum access, minimum fuss, magnificent fun! $450 through Ticketek (Go to supanova.com. au/tickets for more information) World Building Workshop for Writers and Game Designers (see page 24 for info) Brisbane: Sunday, 11th April, 4pm-8.30pm.

Melbourne: Sunday, 18th April, 4pm-8.30pm.

WOLFMAN & PÉREZ SUPA-PASS (see page 27 for info).

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Contents Welcome to Supanova 2010 The SUPA FAN PASS Director’s Day (Brisbane only) Sci-Fi, Fantasy, TV and Film!

Exclusive Fan Opportunities Console & CCG Gaming Cosplay & Fun Interactive Comps Anime & Cartoon Voice Actors Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers Wrestling Comic-Book & Manga Artists & Writers “KICK-ASS” Exclusive Interview

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• Supanova Magazine 2010 Melbourne & Brisbane © Supanova Pop Culture Industries.

• Written by Daniel Zachariou and Drew Tran.

• Art Direction by Tim McEwen and Don Ticchio.

• Edited by Daniel Zachariou and Don Ticchio with thanks to Melanie Teychenne-King • Photos by Steven Yee • For all exhibitor, advertising and marketing enquiries please contact Daniel at info@supanova.com.au

TWILIGHT SUPA-ZONE Pass JAMES MARSTERS in Concert GARETH DAVID-LLOYD Post-Nova Party Coffee with JAMES MARSTERS Coffee with GARETH DAVID-LLOYD For more information see page 14.

Go to www.supanova.com.au/tickets for more information

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Welcome to Supanova 2010!

What is Supanova?

It’s where imagination meets reality in a fun, fantastic atmosphere where the stars are no longer out of reach! The actors you’ve always admired, the voice-talent of your favourite anime, the artists of those comics you can’t put down, the authors whose writing keeps you up late at night!

Meet them, attend their panels, grab their autographs* or even a photo*!

We bring them together within the pop culture phenomenon that is the Supanova Expo and with them we also weave games, collectables, screenings, specialty items, wrestling, toys, exclusives, fun competitions and more!

So whether you’re a newbie or veteran, we look forward to bringing our brand of fun to you! Get into costume, or not, grab a friend and join us for...

Supanova 2010... It’s a blast!!!

Yours in fun, Daniel Zachariou Event Director – Supanova 2010 *All guests confirmed commitments pending. Some autograph and photo fees may apply. Check website for more information. †1 Children 0-12 must accompanied by a paying adult.

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The SUPA FAN PASS Exclusive!

A Free* Night for Our Biggest Fans!

Once again we’re honouring our biggest fans, Weekend SUPA FAN PASS holders, with a whole extra free night of fun at each Supanova Expo, with the Opening Night Ceremony, Friday night from 6pm to 10pm (April 9th in Brisbane and April 16th in Melbourne)!

Get a sneak peak of our wonderful star studded line up of guests as some of them introduce themselves, there are exclusive panels and a Charity Auction with some special and rare items up for grab with the funds going to a good cause. Even better, have you always wanted your favourite sci-fi, game or anime character to be around to do your bidding? Be prepared to fight for the chance to win your very own superhero at our Cosplay Slave Auction!

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And this year we have the exclusive all-action screening of Naruto: Shippüden the Movie, Yuri Lowenthal introducing his own Van Von Hunter and the only “Wolfman and Pérez” Q&A during the weekend. Crying won’t change a thing if you miss out!

Look out for more as the events approach at www.supanova.com.au. *Free with the purchase of a Weekend SUPA FAN PASS.

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Director’s Day! (Brisbane only)

Friday 9th April in Brisbane, the Beginning of a New Tradition as we take you Behind the Camera!

Supanova has always striven to break down the barrier between fans and the talent. Now we’re taking it to another level and dedicating Fridays to the doyens behind the camera!

Please welcome our inaugural line-up…

Peter and Michael Spierig: The Spierig Brothers are back with Daybreakers and huge blockbuster cred, having previously visited us to promote the DVD release of UNDEAD! Greg Connors: Won Best Action Short at the New York International Film & Video Festival in 2005 for Netherworld. The Dark Lurking is his amazing feature debut.

Steve Stamatiadis: The creative heartbeat of Krome Studios, Stamatiadis is another long time friend of Supanova and we look forward to seeing him blow us away with Blade Kitten!

Stu Levy: A giant of the industry as founder of TOKYOPOP, Levy ventured into filmmaking with the mockumentary, Van Von Hunter, and is now working on a number of projects.

Chris Brown: An icon with over 25 years of Producing experience including The Proposition, Daybreakers and now, Triangle.

Other cities, don’t despair, Brisbane 2010, is but the beginning!

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Supa-Star Guests from Sci-Fi, Fantas

“Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.”

BREAKING NEWS! Caprica’s Alessandra Torresani also attending both events!

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...but that’s just one doctor’s opinion as we bring you an exciting array of SUPA-STARS to meet and see up close and personal. We proudly introduce…

A true Supa-Star, it was only natural that Karl Urban took over the mantle of Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy in the rebooting of the Star Trek franchise. It was his role as Eomer in Lord of the Rings that heralded his arrival after TV appearances in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and starring roles in DOOM, Chronicles of Riddick and The Bourne Supremacy cemented that reality.

An absolute heart-throb, all the Twilight fans went wild with excitement when they found out Alex Meraz had been cast as Paul in The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Eclipse.

A native of Arizona, Alex is an actor and dancer who graduated from the New School for the Arts and has also studied mixed martial arts for over 12 years. Needless to say his behind the scenes insights will leave fans gasping for more!

Although best known as Spike from the dual series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and

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antasy, TV and Film!

Angel, James Marster’s career includes regular recurring roles in now four series, Caprica, Torchwood, Smallville and Without a Trace. Add film roles like Dragonball: Evolution and voice work for Superman/Doomsday as Lex Luthor and Mr. Fantastic from The Super Hero Squad Show and its no wonder he’s a fan favorite!

The heart-throb fan favourites don’t stop there though, especially when you have a bit of British with Doctor Who and Torchwood’s, Gareth David-Lloyd. So popular was he with the fans that now, two years later, after Ianto Jones was written out of the series, i.e. killed, their cries to bring him back are undiminished.

Our last guest, Corin Nemec, starred as the lead in the cult US series, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, before landing the role of Jonas Quinn in Stargate SG-1. His involvement with the series rose to the point where his final appearance in “Fallout” was written by him.

Want a quality photo with one of the guests or perhaps their autograph? Ever wanted to ask that burning question which they might know the answer to? With daily photo sessions*, autograph signings* and free Q&A seminars, you can at Supanova!

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Exclusive Fan Opportunities!

There are some fans who want that little bit more! Who are we to disagree? We’ve therefore created some premium priced opportunities to provide that “more” without disadvantaging our regular fans purchasing Day or Weekend Passes…

TWILIGHT SUPA-ZONE PASS

• Weekend SUPA FAN Pass (see page 4) • Professional photo with the Twilight guest (printed on quality gloss photo paper on-site) • Twilight Guest’s autograph on a personal item or optional print of your choice • Priority queuing for autographs & photos • Ability to buy additional autographs without having to re-queue • Exclusive Panel on Saturday only VIP and Twilight Supa-Zone ticket holders can attend • Guaranteed seat in the public Q&A on Sunday • $160 through Ticket or $180 at the door • Limited to 150 tickets per city

JAMES MARSTERS In Concert

7.00pm Saturday night on location at each event (Walter Burnett in Brisbane and the Exhibition Building in Melbourne) James will be doing a one-hour acoustic set with two tickets to choose from…

VIP Access • 6.00pm Exclusive Access to Pre-Concert Drinks with James • Exclusive James Marsters Badge • Premium seating • $200 through Ticketek or $220 at the door • Limited to 50 tickets per event Regular Ticket • $30 through Ticketek or $40 at the door • Limited to 500 tickets per event PLEASE NOTE: James will not be posing for photos or signing autographs during his concert.

GARETH DAVID-LLOYD Post-Nova Party! (Venue TBC)

Great chance for fans to hang casually with Gareth at the end of official Supanova duties.

• From 7.00pm Sunday evening • Finger food • $90 through Ticketek or $110 at the event • Limited to 50 tickets per event PLEASE NOTE: Gareth will not be signing autographs for fans during this event.

Coffee with JAMES MARSTERS Coffee with GARETH DAVIDLLOYD

Both these events take place prior to each expo during breakfast on Saturday (Gareth) & Sunday (James) with seats being auctioned.

For more information on “Coffee with…” and any other ticket visit www.supanova.com.au/tickets.

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Console and CCG Gaming!

is landing with a BOOM at Supanova in 2010 with comps, exclusives, giveaways with Ubisoft and Nintendo both onboard with more to come! Add Cartoon Network showcasing their great online games and the fun of the Intencity games and giveaways, and its nothing short of action packed! Brisbane fans check out the Krome booth for Blade Kitten awesomeness!

And for CCG fans, we’ll have Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments both weekends!

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Cosplay & Fun Interactive Comps!

Seriously… this is one of the best parts of Supanova!

Everybody gets Supa-Freaky and interactive dressing up for the Madman Cosplay Contest and you don’t have to be in an anime costume to compete. It can be from comic-books, games, sci-fi or fantasy too!

But there are a whole heap more comps which means you have to be ready to rumble with battles between brilliant brains, manipulative minds, soaring singing voices, amazing artworks and crafty cosplays that will definitely blow your mind! With our regular competitions of trivia, art, karaoke and cosplay, come and check out our new competitions for your chance to win awesome prizes!

Then of course there’s round two of the Madman National Cosplay Championship hosted by the magnificent ‘Cosplay Song” singing, John Robertson, with qualifiers vying for a spot in the Finals (Brisbane, November, TBC). With First Prize consisting of a trip for two to Japan’s 2011 Tokyo Anime Fair, that’s worth sewing for! Visit www.supanova.com.au/ competitions/ and www.madman.com.au/ cosplay/ for more info.

And don’t forget that the majority of all this action takes place in the legendary Madman Anime Theatre starting each Friday with Opening Night and continuing all weekend.

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Anime & Cartoon Talent Galore at Sup

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For many fans, it’s all about the voice-actors of animé and cartoon ! Who are we to disappoint? And since interacting with our voice actor guests is totally FREE… • Bring stuff to get autographed for FREE. • How did they learn and improve their skills?

• Ask them about how they bring their characters to life!

• What techniques do they use and do they ever make sounds they shouldn’t?

Our guests will also be a part of some very special question and answer panels, comps and more! So without further ado let’s introduce you to them!

Yuri Lowenthal One of the hottest voice-actors,Yuri is a veteran of the anime industry and fluent in many languages including Japanese! With a huge range of credits to his name including 'Sasuke Uchiha' from Naruto, 'Suzaku Kururugi' from Code Geass, 'Iceman' from Wolverine and the X-Men, 'Superman' from Legion of SuperHeroes, 'the Prince' from the Prince of Persia games and so many more, it's his role as 'Ben Tennyson' from Ben 10: Alien Force that really has everyone excited!

Tara Platt Best known for her role as the Sand Ninja, 'Temari', on the hit show Naruto, Tara has been in the voice-over industry for many years and has voiced many other characters including 'The Queen' in MÄR.Video games are also a big part

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of her credits including 'Wonder Woman' from D.C. Comics Vs. Mortal Kombat. She's also been on TV shows like Charmed.

Liam O'Brien With a penchant for voicing darker and evil characters, some of Liam's roles have been the voice of 'Gaara' of the Desert on Naruto, 'Nightcrawler' from Wolverine and the X-Men, to one of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse 'War' from Darksiders! He's also the voice of Hiroim in the upcoming Planet Hulk coming out in March. A man of many talents, skilled at voice acting, scripting and directing.

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Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers!

Beyond the BORDER of Fantastic!

BORDERS is back with an international guest that joins our domestic best in showcasing some of the very best speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy authors at Supanova! These gifted writers include...

Scott Sigler Writer and innovator, Scott was responsible for releasing the world’s first podcast-only novel, Earthcore, which, with his second major published novel, Contagious, and its precursor, Infected, which is now optioned as a motion picture production by Rogue Pictures, are all freely available to listen to as audiobooks in serialised form at www.scottsigler.com.

Marianne de Pierres Creator of the ‘Parrish Plessis’ series with her most recent novel from ‘The Sentients of Orion’ series, Chaos Space, joining Dark Space as a finalist of the Aurealis Awards!

Jennifer Fallon International bestselling author of the Hythrun Chronicles, the Second Sons series and the recently completed Tide Lords series.

Kylie Chan (Brisbane only) A fan of our events, its our turn to shine the light on this amazing author of the ‘Dark Heavens Trilogy’ and the impending ‘Journey to Wudang Trilogy’.

World Building MasterClass for Writers and Game Designers Hosted by Supanova 4pm to 8.30pm each Sunday, this unique MasterClass for authors, screenwriters and game designers is a must from one of Australia’s experts in the field, Jennifer Fallon. First 30 tickets per event receive early-bird special. www.worldbuildingworkshops.com

Wrestling!

Get ready for action as the fighting athletes of the Australasian Wrestling Federation (AWF) invade Supanova once again!

See “in your face” AWF live events, three times daily, Saturdays and Sundays, with each show fun filled, action packed, and surprises galore with AWF Titles on the line! Who will survive and what will be left of them? Find out at Supanova!

You can also visit the AWF stand, meet the wrestlers, obtain merchandise and be part of the AWF festivities.

For scheduled bouts visit www.awfwrestling.com.au

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Heaps of Comic-Book and Manga Ar

The Best of the Best Team-Ups! We always strive to have cool international guests, great local talent, a full Artists’ Alley and truckloads of trades and back-issues for the collectors. We’ve done it again!

Last year we wrote it sometimes take years for a plan to come together and, just like then, it couldn’t be truer as we present one of the absolutely dream creative teams of Marv Wolfman and George Pérez!

Their union started ever so innocuously in Power Man #27 back in 1975 before exploding with New Teen Titans #1 in 1980 and reaching a crescendo with Crisis on Infinite Earths, a series that still defines the current DC Universe.

Comparatively George was still a new kid on the block but quickly found his feet with The Avengers and Fantastic Four. Memorable runs ensued until he went over to DC where he also worked on Justice League of America and, what would become a perennial favourite, Wonder Woman. He eventually found his way back to Marvel where he helped reboot The Avengers before heading back to DC for Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds with so much, much more in between.

Marv Wolfman on the other hand started writing back at the tail end of the Silver Age and cut his teeth on series such as House of Secrets

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nga Artists and Writers!

and Tomb of Dracula before his output would make Bendis or Johns shudder with Daredevil, Iron Fist, The Defenders, The Champions, Master of Kung-Fu to name but a few. When he went to DC he simultaneously took on Batman, Green Lantern, Adventure Comics and The New Teen Titans.

For gaming and comic-book fans, Jeffrey ‘Chamba’ Cruz, has everyone excited, fans and his publishers, as he’s knocked out brilliant monthly art out for Street Fighter II: Turbo without missing a beat! Udon’s excited, we’re excited and he’s excited to be visiting Brisbane and Melbourne in 2010!

And Stewart McKenny has been amongst both the Brave and the Bold in tackling yet another project for D.C. Add them to his DC Super Friends and Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures credits and his portfolio runneth over!

Meanwhile, Colin Wilson, one half of the Aussie contingent behind Star Wars: Invasion, is making sure Melbourne fans get to see him this year too!

For the serious fan, don’t take any chances and make sure you grab a WOLFMAN & PÉREZ SUPA-PASS. Details are online at www. supanova.com.au/tickets with benefits including an individual sketch by George Pérez and a copy of the Ltd Ed (200) Wonder Woman print also drawn by him (pictured right).

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“KICK ASS” Exclusive Interview with

From the panel to the Screen!

On behalf of Supanova, (Cool) Shite on the Tube duo, Bruce and Quinny, were lucky enough to talk to, Aaron Johnson, star of the upcoming superhero action comedy “Kick Ass.” Aaron is the title character, Kick Ass, a normal everyday Joe who decides to do something many of us have contemplated and that’s become a superhero!

QUINNY: You play Dave who gets into a costume and decides to kick ass, is that about right Aaron?

AARON: Yeah that’s about right, yeah (laughs).

QUINNY: Fantastic, so, first and foremost, what’s your process for getting in the mindset of being "Kick Ass" AARON: I think for Dave it’s usually all about confidence, you know? He's really a nobody in school, and has nothing special about him so he dresses up as a superhero and when he puts the outfit on he feels like he's invincible and can take on the world. He puts on this confidence barrier and tries to fight crime but doesn't do too well.

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BRUCE: How daunting was it being cast in this superhero film?

AARON: It wasn't so daunting because, when we made it Matthew (Vaughn), the director, would always make jokes that we were just making a big budget home video thing, because we didn't have any distributors.

We have kinda gone around and done a load of press screenings and all sorts of things, tests in LA, and it gets a good response, its got a good crowd following it over there, a lot of comic book fans. So it’s kind of gone off on its own steam really. It’s really lucky.

BRUCE: So who is your favourite character in Kick Ass? AARON: I think we can all agree that its Hit Girl, she's a bad ass character. You know who I love? I just love Mark Strong. I think his performance is absolutely incredible; you know he's a proper badass as the top dog gangster Frank d'Amico. But Hit Girl is without a doubt the one, she's the one to watch really. She's good fun to watch.

BRUCE: Beautiful! So what was your reaction when you saw the completed film?

AARON: I haven't seen the completed film.

I've seen loads of different rough cuts and I've been away for a month and a half. I'll probably

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w with Aaron Johnson

see it next week actually, in a couple of days, the finished version that is. And it’s all sort of changed. We also did a whole complete reshoot of the ending! (We) just re-scripted the ending about 6 months later, after we'd finished originally filming, we shot a whole other week of filming where they changed the ending.

QUINNY: That’s a big change! So now the comic has still been coming out while the film is in productions, do you know whether the comic is ending in the same way the film is?

Or was this re-shoot something to take it away from that?

AARON: No, I don't know, I think they've just continued, you know, Mark Millar and Jane Goldblum, she’s the screen writer, and Ralphy, they keep the stories quite tight and quite close together, and you know when we started filming there were only three issues of Kick Ass, and it'd got to the first couple of scenes really, and by the time we'd finished filming we were on issue 5 and they'd only just introduced Red Mist! So we had the whole script before the issues were out.

QUINNY: Its pretty ballsy of a comics creator to say "here, make my film of a comic that isn't even finished yet" isn't it? So did you have much contact with Mark Millar, the

creator of the original book during production?

AARON: Oh, yeah, they came on set quite a few times, John Romita Jr and Mark Millar, they were on set quite a bit yeah.

QUINNY: Just to wrap it up, what advice would you give to somebody who wanted to be a superhero?

AARON: Hmmm… God I don't know, take some serious like weaponry! A samurai sword or something... Unless you really do have powers and then… Get some like backup ammo and $h1t…

QUINNY: Right, go in armed to the gills…

AARON: Yeah, go in prepared.

QUINNY: I was half expecting it to just be “Don’t!”

AARON: Ha-ha, that’s a good one too.

QUINNY: Aaron, thanks for joining us and we really hope the film…Kicks…Ass!

KICK ASS is only at the movies April 8th!

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